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Electric Cloud 2.2 Improves Throughput and Enhances Support for Centralized Build Clusters
Mountain View, CA, May 4, 2005 — Electric Cloud,
the software build infrastructure company, today announced the release
of Electric Cloud 2.2 which improves build throughput and enhances
support for centralized build clusters. Electric Cloud accelerates
the software development build process by ten to twenty times by
transforming inexpensive servers into parallel build clusters. The
result is that Electric Cloud customers eliminate the universal
build bottleneck, resulting in faster time to market, improved product
quality and greater engineering productivity.
“Our customers are constantly innovating, increasing both
product complexity as well as the breadth of their product lines.
Their product build times are growing and they need to run literally
thousands of builds every week,” said John Graham-Cumming,
Chief Scientist at Electric Cloud. “These companies require
a solution that can speed builds and ensure that the software build
process does not become the bottleneck in the development and release
process. Not only is Electric Cloud many times faster than alternative
solutions, it is much less expensive to deploy a centralized build
cluster than the alternative of putting build-class machines on
every engineer’s desktop.
Electric Cloud 2.2 is designed with the needs of large enterprises
in mind. In this new version Electric Cloud includes a scripting
interface that ensures teams can automate repetitive tasks. Improved
cluster security also allows administrators to configure a wide
variety of access policies. Finally, new cluster sharing improves
build throughput by as much as forty percent, meeting the needs
of customers running hundreds or thousands of builds a week.
“We designed this release for the growing number of our customers
who are deploying Electric Cloud across their enterprise,”
said John Ousterhout, Electric Cloud CEO and President. “The
new and improved features in this release along with Electric Cloud’s
low cost of ownership add significantly to the benefits of faster
time to market and improved quality that we bring to our customers.”
The Product
Electric Cloud 2.2 is for medium-to-large software development teams
unhappy with ever-increasing build times. Electric Cloud 2.2 accelerates
builds 10 – 20 times by distributing software builds in parallel
across scalable clusters of inexpensive, industry-standard servers.
At the core of Electric Cloud 2.2 is Electric Make, which is compatible
with existing Make-based build infrastructures so it can be rapidly
deployed with minimal change to existing tools or build environments.
In order to ensure that parallel builds will not break, Electric
Cloud has developed a patent-pending dependency management system
that performs on-the-fly dependency analysis enabling maximum parallelism
while always producing correct builds. It works with existing Make-based
build infrastructures, so builds are dramatically faster using existing
build scripts and tools.
New Features in Electric Cloud 2.2
Increased Control and Security
With Electric Cloud 2.2, administrators can configure Cluster access
control policies. Administrators have the option to allow any user
to access the cluster, or to only allow a set of approved users.
Also, Electric Cloud Cluster Manager’s failover has been certified
against the Microsoft Cluster Services. If for some reason the Cluster
Manager fails, the service will be automatically migrated to the
backup system.
New Cluster Scripting Interface
Electric Cloud now offers a command-line interface to the cluster
resources, in addition to its web-based User Interface. Scripting
is critical to teams automating their build processes. Developers
can now programmatically increase the priority of a running build,
cancel a running build, or enable or disable agents in the cluster.
Improved Build Throughput
Engineering teams want builds to finish as fast as possible while
also improving build throughput. In Electric Cloud 2.2, cluster
sharing has been improved to more efficiently allocate agents to
builds. There are periods during a build when there is only one
remaining job. Electric Cloud now automatically detects these situations,
and frees up unused resources so they can be allocated to other
builds. Depending on the build environment, this can improve overall
build throughput by as much as forty percent.
About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering
technologies that shorten time-to-market, increase productivity,
and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud addresses
the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares
that every software development team endures. The company’s
products are in use by leading organizations in telecommunications,
automotive, software, networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain
View, California, Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms,
Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries
please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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Cloud, Inc. All other names are used for identification purposes
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